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David Talbot with Quincy McCoy: Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents:

DAVID TALBOT
Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke
With Quincy McCoy
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Monday, January 27, 2020, 7:30 PM
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA
advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com ::T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moes, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs.Dalloways Books $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events
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Touching, informative, sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing,
I couldn't put it down Anne Lamott, NY Times bestselling author

My stroke did not just change my life. It saved my life.

So begins Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke, the powerful memoir
By celebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author David Talbot. Stricken with
a debilitating stroke at the age of sixty-six, he was left partially paralyzed, struggling
to speak, to swallow, to stand and required constant monitoring. And yet, despite
his startling new condition, he didn't consider himself a man whose life was really
diminished. He was instead a man whose life was profoundly revived.

For the first time, Talbot invites readers along on his intimate journey through the
life-changing year following his stroke. From that fateful night in November, 2017,
through the harrowing journey from the ER to the stroke center, and ultimately along
his road to recovery, Talbot reveals the painstaking, yet strangely euphoric process
of restarting ones life. And in examining his frenetic past from the frenzied early
days as founder of the online media pioneer Salon, through his successful publishing
career and to his wild journey through Hollywood he offers readers an uncensored
look at a life both shattered and renewed.

Told with Talbots trademark candor and humor, Between Heaven and Hell is a
powerful reminder of how a major health crisis can positively alter ones identity
and shift ones perspective on life itself.

QUINCY McCOY, author of No Static: A Guide to Creative Radio Programing, is the
General Manager of KPFA Radio.